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100A friend asked: "Wouldn't you love to attend a wedding like that?" In a way, I felt I had. Yes, I began to feel absorbed in the experience. A few movies can do that, can slip you out of your mind and into theirs.
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100Intriguing, disturbing, uplifting evocation. In fact, to watch this film is to engage in participatory art -- for better and for worse, through sickness and in health, we're drawn deeply in.
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100Hathaway carries you on an emotional whirligig that can be horrifying and funny, hopeful and devastating.
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100A film that is both deceptively modest and deeply resonant.
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100A triumph -- Demme's finest work since "The Silence of the Lambs," and a movie that tingles with life.
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100True to the characters and their conflicts, the resolution is neither neat nor expected. True to Demme, it's honest and generous and very human.
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100I've never seen a movie with this mixture of fullness and desolation. Rachel Getting Married is a masterpiece.
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100It may be painful at times, but Rachel Getting Married sure is one heck of a party.
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90As successful as this family drama is, Demme proves himself to be quite a multitasker. With the skill of an ethnographer and the passion of a sentimentalist, he celebrates the traditions of marriage in a handful of tender set pieces.
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90Best and most unexpected of all, Rachel Getting Married dares to mix the bitter with the sweet. It understands that life-altering situations like weddings not only bring out the worst in human behavior but also the finest.
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90It’s a small movie, and in some ways a very sad one, but it has an undeniable and authentic vitality, an exuberance of spirit, that feels welcome and rare.
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90Most of the time, Demme's deliberately unstable mixture of moods and genres produces electric results. Rachel Getting Married takes a familiar subject--the raw nerves of American family life with--and draws fresh blood.
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90Brimming with energy, elan and the unpredictability of his "Something Wild," Jonathan Demme's triumphant Rachel Getting Married may just lay the wedding film to rest, being such a hard act to follow.
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88The acting is of the highest caliber. Winger, magnificent and too long between films, is a volcano of repressed anger.
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88A triumph of ambience, Rachel Getting Married is the first narrative feature since the 1980s from director Jonathan Demme that feels like a party--bittersweet, but a party nonetheless.
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88A portrait of a family reeling with pain and resentment -- and rising to the challenge of dealing with it head-on.
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88As Kym, Hathaway runs an astonishing gamut of emotions, from anger to fragility and from hurt to regret - without ever seeming actress-y, like Nicole Kidman. Start clearing that mantelpiece, Anne.
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88Jonathan Demme's superb rule-bending, heartrending and family-mending drama - ends with a wedding, it resists conventions as brazenly as does the bride's sister.
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83The longer it goes on, the more you're swept up into the jet stream of good feeling.
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Mixed: 13 out of 118
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SkipYoung3It tries to be Cinema Verite, but I never believed it. So many of the emotional reactions struck me as implausible and melodramatic: Rachel
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